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CharleyM

@cmonagan.bsky.social

Claude Rains, Judy Davis, Bill Bradley, Ray Davies, Aubrey/Maturin, big breakfasts, great centerfielders. Author of Carrie Welton, The Easter Confession, How to Get a Monkey Into Harvard and The Neurotic's Handbook, among others.

created November 11, 2024

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Profile picture CharleyM (@cmonagan.bsky.social) reply parent

He doesn't know to take his cap off indoors. He's not only a poor president but also a real slob.

1/9/2025, 4:15:13 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture CharleyM (@cmonagan.bsky.social) reply parent

And every yawn is a stifled scream.

1/9/2025, 1:46:28 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture CharleyM (@cmonagan.bsky.social) reply parent

But every word wuffler needs a good edtedder.

1/9/2025, 1:14:25 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture CharleyM (@cmonagan.bsky.social) reply parent

Trump is too chickenshit to throw out the first pitch on Opening Day.

31/8/2025, 4:09:22 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture CharleyM (@cmonagan.bsky.social) reply parent

Come live in a place below sea level where hurricanes are commonplace.

31/8/2025, 3:55:42 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture CharleyM (@cmonagan.bsky.social) reply parent

The peak of displeasure: "annoying"

31/8/2025, 3:46:51 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture CharleyM (@cmonagan.bsky.social) reply parent

It's so clear that the worm eggs in his brain are hatching.

31/8/2025, 2:13:41 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture CharleyM (@cmonagan.bsky.social) reply parent

Yes, especially wonderful old friends.

31/8/2025, 1:32:31 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Joe Kassel (@joekassel.bsky.social) reposted

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30/8/2025, 6:36:42 PM | 5821 1747 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture CharleyM (@cmonagan.bsky.social) reply parent

Mary A.

31/8/2025, 2:27:55 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture CharleyM (@cmonagan.bsky.social) reply parent

Jesus F. Christ. For the sake of his own out-of-control vanity he throws India into the arms of China.

30/8/2025, 9:35:26 PM | 10 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture CharleyM (@cmonagan.bsky.social) reply parent

But if he high-fives anyone out on the course his hand might fall off.

30/8/2025, 1:43:11 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture CharleyM (@cmonagan.bsky.social)

Just had the best breakfast sandwich of my life at Petraroia Deli in Litchfield, CT.

30/8/2025, 1:29:14 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture CharleyM (@cmonagan.bsky.social) reply parent

Rainman in Spurs

30/8/2025, 1:01:52 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture CharleyM (@cmonagan.bsky.social) reply parent

Trump hates it when money might be going to people in need.

29/8/2025, 4:44:04 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture CharleyM (@cmonagan.bsky.social) reply parent

The idea that these three idiots are in charge of our nation's military and state departments is frightening. They are ill-equipped and ill-prepared and it's making me ill.

28/8/2025, 6:09:05 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture CharleyM (@cmonagan.bsky.social) reply parent

I don’t understand why people can’t watch a movie without eating.

28/8/2025, 4:31:22 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture CharleyM (@cmonagan.bsky.social) reply parent

I remember this from boyhood (c. 1955): Whistle while you work, Hitler is a jerk, Mussolini broke his weenie, Now it doesn’t work.

28/8/2025, 3:36:05 PM | 8 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture CharleyM (@cmonagan.bsky.social) reply parent

Oh please, what kind of God would allow such a thing to happen?

28/8/2025, 1:21:49 AM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture CharleyM (@cmonagan.bsky.social) reply parent

Not the first. Doctor Peter Marks was.

27/8/2025, 9:46:19 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture CharleyM (@cmonagan.bsky.social) reply parent

They charged him but, like the sandwich, they couldn't make it stick.

27/8/2025, 4:15:00 PM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture The Onion (@theonion.com) reposted

Area Woman Not Good Enough Artist To Justify Eccentricities https://theonion.com/area-woman-not-good-enough-artist-to-justify-eccentrici-1819577481/

Area Woman Not Good Enough Artist To Justify Eccentricities
27/8/2025, 2:00:44 PM | 2234 202 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture CharleyM (@cmonagan.bsky.social) reply parent

I do think Putin could invade Alaska and Trump wouldn't do anything about it.

27/8/2025, 12:51:29 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture CharleyM (@cmonagan.bsky.social) reply parent

He did good.

26/8/2025, 10:07:14 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture CharleyM (@cmonagan.bsky.social) reply parent

True, he was scared to death and cowering that time when the eagle spread its wings. But I don't believe they would have killed an innocent bystander to get a photo op.

26/8/2025, 1:32:22 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Just Jack (@just-jack-1.bsky.social) reposted reply parent

If he’s going to put his mug on everything, use pictures that show who he really is.

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26/8/2025, 1:15:37 PM | 389 95 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture CharleyM (@cmonagan.bsky.social) reply parent

How about "that's not true" instead of "the truth is more complicated"?

25/8/2025, 10:17:07 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture CharleyM (@cmonagan.bsky.social) reply parent

Covering his desiccated right hand.

25/8/2025, 3:34:57 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture CharleyM (@cmonagan.bsky.social) reply parent

If need be, I could see all the New England states and maybe New York and New Jersey getting together to formulate their own joint COVID policy and maybe even buy and distribute their own vaccines.

25/8/2025, 3:12:42 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture CharleyM (@cmonagan.bsky.social) reply parent

That’s MORE than 3x the California murder rate.

25/8/2025, 1:47:14 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture CharleyM (@cmonagan.bsky.social) reply parent

Trump has long had problems with votes that don’t go the way he wants. They bring out the spoiled little boy in him.

25/8/2025, 1:34:29 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jon Cooper (@joncooper-us.bsky.social) reposted

No lies told here.

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24/8/2025, 5:54:24 PM | 11903 5125 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture CharleyM (@cmonagan.bsky.social) reply parent

This guy couldn’t be more ignorant of history. He seems basically uneducated.

24/8/2025, 2:41:39 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture CharleyM (@cmonagan.bsky.social) reply parent

This is the true megalomaniac at work - he knows a bit about grass so turns that into being the world’s leading expert on grass. A perverted brain like that shouldn’t be in a position of power.

24/8/2025, 2:31:06 PM | 15 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture CharleyM (@cmonagan.bsky.social) reply parent

Thanks a lot. I just added apple cider donuts to my grocery list.

24/8/2025, 1:06:11 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture CharleyM (@cmonagan.bsky.social) reply parent

Hillary Clinton beat Donald Trump by nearly 3 million votes in 2016

24/8/2025, 2:04:23 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture CharleyM (@cmonagan.bsky.social) reply parent

Does it mean nothing to him that George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Jackson, Abraham Lincoln, Ronald Reagan - all the presidents - would be disgusted with him and what he’s done?

23/8/2025, 6:29:53 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 (@gtconway.bsky.social) reposted

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23/8/2025, 2:07:40 AM | 25399 7284 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture CharleyM (@cmonagan.bsky.social) reply parent

He’s sick in every way a person can be sick - head to toe, inside to out, physical to mental, awake and asleep, morning, noon and night.

22/8/2025, 8:39:17 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture CharleyM (@cmonagan.bsky.social) reply parent

As tough as a marshmallow. A disgrace to all who came before.

21/8/2025, 12:14:35 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture CharleyM (@cmonagan.bsky.social) reply parent

If the Republican platform is actually to be one that includes open racism, winking at sex crimes, promoting disease, and coddling billionaires and Vladimir Putin, then our side has a damn good chance in 2026. Solid, bold candidates and straightforward messaging, please!

20/8/2025, 8:02:55 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) (@hcrichardson.bsky.social) reposted reply parent

I think it’s high time we take back the national narrative. For centuries Americans of all races, genders, religions, and abilities have worked to create a more perfect union, and we should shout from the rooftops that WE are America. Not these idiot white supremacist authoritarians.

18/8/2025, 6:16:14 PM | 3774 1189 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Radley Balko (@radleybalko.bsky.social) reposted

Hegseth six months ago: We’re going to turn our military back into the most lethal warfighters on the planet. Vance, Hegseth today: We’re sending the most lethal warfighters on the planet to battle homeless people sleeping in a train station.

20/8/2025, 5:34:51 PM | 507 163 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture CharleyM (@cmonagan.bsky.social) reply parent

He’s the furthest thing from a war hero that I can imagine. He’s a draft dodger and a coward - the last person you’d want in your foxhole.

20/8/2025, 12:14:42 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture CharleyM (@cmonagan.bsky.social) reply parent

Stop giving this tiny group of losers the attention they crave.

19/8/2025, 4:00:10 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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This redistricting stuff is giving me a headache in another part of my brain than the tariffs headache.

17/8/2025, 2:53:09 PM | 2 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture CharleyM (@cmonagan.bsky.social) reply parent

Bessent is quickly talking himself into the Clown Corner of history.

19/8/2025, 2:29:34 PM | 63 5 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Jacob (@markjacob.bsky.social) reposted

When there was positive economic data under Biden, the New York Times told us to worry, with headlines like: “Why a Strong U.S. Economy Is Making Stock Investors Jittery” and “Inflation Has Been Easing Fast, but Wild Cards Lie Ahead” But when there is worrisome data under Trump, NYT reassures us:

Economic Data Has Taken a Dark Turn. That Doesn’t Mean a Crash Is Near. Inflation is up and job creation down, but the U.S. economy could still pull through without too much pain.
19/8/2025, 12:46:39 PM | 4304 1249 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture CharleyM (@cmonagan.bsky.social) reply parent

Cheap, vulgar, tasteless, ugly - much like the man himself.

19/8/2025, 2:04:20 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture CharleyM (@cmonagan.bsky.social) reply parent

I don’t want a president who thinks this is classy.

18/8/2025, 11:27:12 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture The Onion (@theonion.com) reposted

Trump Angry Not A Single Visiting European Leader Wearing Lederhosen, Tiny Hat theonion.com/trump-a...

Trump Angry Not A Single Visiting European Leader Wearing Lederhosen, Tiny Hat
18/8/2025, 9:30:00 PM | 2307 222 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture CharleyM (@cmonagan.bsky.social) reply parent

You rang?

18/8/2025, 4:23:19 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture CharleyM (@cmonagan.bsky.social) reply parent

Kids set up a lemonade stand last month in our summer beach community. Price was $5 a cup. I told the little shits to get lost.

18/8/2025, 4:03:15 PM | 3 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture CharleyM (@cmonagan.bsky.social) reply parent

He's a Jonestown-level nutcase but I love his brooch.

17/8/2025, 3:36:45 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Nowhere Man.

17/8/2025, 3:32:09 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture CharleyM (@cmonagan.bsky.social) reply parent

This redistricting stuff is giving me a headache in a different part of the brain from where the tariffs headache is.

17/8/2025, 3:29:36 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture CharleyM (@cmonagan.bsky.social) reply parent

Ten assholes desperate for attention. And you gave it to them.

17/8/2025, 3:27:26 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture CharleyM (@cmonagan.bsky.social) reply parent

I don't know what to say about her signature.

17/8/2025, 3:19:59 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture CharleyM (@cmonagan.bsky.social) reply parent

Putin's expression absolutely says it all.

17/8/2025, 3:03:35 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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This redistricting stuff is giving me a headache in another part of my brain than the tariffs headache.

17/8/2025, 2:53:09 PM | 2 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture CharleyM (@cmonagan.bsky.social) reply parent

Maybe not the best time for the Prez to be trying out his new George Will hairdo.

16/8/2025, 4:28:25 PM | 7 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture davidrlurie (@davidrlurie.bsky.social) reposted

Putin's "strength" comes from a Potemkin Village war economy edging closer to insolvency. As I said in January, Vlad needs Trump to save his empire. And Trump's now made clear he'll do whatever it takes to save his Kremlin ally. The question is whether what remains of the free world will stop them.

16/8/2025, 2:19:04 PM | 480 130 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture CharleyM (@cmonagan.bsky.social) reply parent

Giving new meaning to the term "gift article."

13/8/2025, 5:11:21 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture CharleyM (@cmonagan.bsky.social) reply parent

Not Was

13/8/2025, 12:49:53 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tori Foote (@toriatheisttori.bsky.social) reposted

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12/8/2025, 6:12:15 PM | 228 109 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture CharleyM (@cmonagan.bsky.social) reply parent

Brothers, sisters, we don't need this fascist ballroom!

12/8/2025, 1:09:03 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture CharleyM (@cmonagan.bsky.social) reply parent

Brothers, sisters, we don't need no fascist ballroom.

12/8/2025, 1:01:31 AM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture CharleyM (@cmonagan.bsky.social) reply parent

Hearst has turned my hometown paper (Waterbury, CT) into a lifeless, directionless, clueless, haphazardly edited mess. Yet they're miles ahead of Alden in every respect.

12/8/2025, 12:57:54 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture CharleyM (@cmonagan.bsky.social) reply parent

Crime, savagery, filth and scum will only disappear from Washington when the Trump administration finally leaves town.

11/8/2025, 12:41:59 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture The Tennessee Holler (@thetnholler.bsky.social) reposted

Welp

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11/8/2025, 12:45:49 AM | 21897 7452 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Paulley Ticks (@tomadelsbach.bsky.social) reposted

The White House renovation is complete. #DonaldTrump

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10/8/2025, 8:14:29 PM | 5198 1438 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture CharleyM (@cmonagan.bsky.social) reply parent

Deck chairs on the Titanic

10/8/2025, 1:28:13 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture CharleyM (@cmonagan.bsky.social) reply parent

They look like the stick-one you’d see advertised in Parade magazine.

9/8/2025, 2:15:22 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Patrick O’Brian

9/8/2025, 2:12:29 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture CharleyM (@cmonagan.bsky.social) reply parent

Binaca Pete's fake tough-guy pose reveals just what a chickenshit bad actor he is. Also, never educated about U.S. history.

8/8/2025, 12:15:58 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture CharleyM (@cmonagan.bsky.social) reply parent

If I was this obvious and ridiculous a liar I think I might just begin telling the truth. Imagine being related to this clown.

6/8/2025, 1:38:25 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture CharleyM (@cmonagan.bsky.social) reply parent

My God, this guy comes across as a total simpleton.

6/8/2025, 1:23:24 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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www.riverpoolsandspas.com/blog/reasons...

5/8/2025, 12:24:38 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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www.riverpoolsandspas.com/blog/reasons...

5/8/2025, 12:24:15 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture CharleyM (@cmonagan.bsky.social) reply parent

I'd like to say a word on behalf of diving boards. They provided the most fun you could have at a pool. I well remember lining up, shivering, to get my shot at a perfect cannonball. But now, due to our cravenly litigious, hand-wringing society, they've disappeared - fun that's disappeared forever.

4/8/2025, 7:35:36 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture CharleyM (@cmonagan.bsky.social) reply parent

The vulgar stupidity of this design decision is beyond comprehension. Trump is ugly in every possible way.

4/8/2025, 1:57:57 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture CharleyM (@cmonagan.bsky.social) reply parent

Parking-lot chic

3/8/2025, 12:35:52 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture CharleyM (@cmonagan.bsky.social) reply parent

Absolutely true. Just spent a month in our R.I. beach community. Daily runners and walkers are 3-1 or 4-1 women vs. men.

2/8/2025, 6:19:56 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture CharleyM (@cmonagan.bsky.social) reply parent

So many of these guys are nonstop talkers who don't pay enough attention to the game in front of them. Sound off is always an attractive option.

2/8/2025, 2:13:31 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture CharleyM (@cmonagan.bsky.social) reply parent

She had 3 million more votes than he did.

2/8/2025, 12:19:46 AM | 15 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture CharleyM (@cmonagan.bsky.social) reply parent

Who's the stupid simpering moron who's questioning him?

2/8/2025, 12:16:17 AM | 29 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Trump gets rained out during a golf match, fires the head of the National Weather Service.

1/8/2025, 7:18:39 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture CharleyM (@cmonagan.bsky.social) reply parent

He's a bully and a coward and he has the shit-for-brains notion that Canada is any easy mark. Please prove him wrong at every opportunity.

1/8/2025, 4:17:57 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture CharleyM (@cmonagan.bsky.social) reply parent

I do wonder how many Republicans in the House and Senate would literally drink the poison Kool-Aid if Trump told them to.

1/8/2025, 4:13:58 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture DemCastDonGA (@donshantajr.bsky.social) reposted

Another day, another reminder...

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Profile picture BAS•TÁR•DIZER (@antsman41.bsky.social) reposted

Twins ig page looks like their team plane crashed.

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Profile picture CharleyM (@cmonagan.bsky.social) reply parent

Butler

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Profile picture CharleyM (@cmonagan.bsky.social) reply parent

He’s never read a book from beginning to end.

31/7/2025, 9:41:25 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture My America 🇺🇸 (@oldamerica.bsky.social) reposted

The Trump administration just approved a $200 million gold-plated ballroom at the White House— …right after signing a law that strips health care from 17 million Americans. Luxury for them. Struggle for everyone else.

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Profile picture Chris Murphy (@chrismurphyct.bsky.social) reposted

Update: I offered the amendment. Not to refuse acceptance of the Qatari jet; just to prohibit Trump from taking it with him when he leaves office - after the taxpayers spend $1 billion to retrofit it. Failed 14-15. Every single Republican voted to allow Trump to take the jet.

31/7/2025, 2:58:49 PM | 4918 2098 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture CharleyM (@cmonagan.bsky.social) reply parent

That's a lot of air fresheners. Did someone die in this car?

31/7/2025, 3:31:12 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture CharleyM (@cmonagan.bsky.social) reply parent

And how about the pinhead feeding him questions?

30/7/2025, 8:37:32 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture CharleyM (@cmonagan.bsky.social) reply parent

Hi, I'm a plumber in a film. My role is a small one. I am a source of great earthy humor and occasionally a flash of equally earthy wisdom. I am always the funniest person in the room, even if it's a bathroom. I'm never around at the end. It's always on to the next job for me.

29/7/2025, 2:05:04 PM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture CharleyM (@cmonagan.bsky.social) reply parent

D'ya not ken the powerful liquor of a Honey Dip donut and a creamy, sugary cup of mud?

28/7/2025, 8:58:01 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture CharleyM (@cmonagan.bsky.social) reply parent

The thing is, he’s sending fundraising pleas to people like me - a run-of-the-mill Dem here in Connecticut. And we might not be fond of those who get their marching orders from an imaginary friend.

28/7/2025, 5:44:35 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view